SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — The identical day that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement brokers (ICE) brokers had been reported at downtown SF workplace buildings, the Metropolis of San Francisco unveiled a brand new on-line hub for immigrants. The SF Immigrant Discussion board was launched Monday as an “online resource for asylees, refugees and their service providers,” in keeping with a tweet from the San Francisco Workplace of Civic Engagement & Immigrant Affairs (OCEIA).
The hub is meant to attach these in want with providers, sources and occasions, amongst different issues. The hub was launched as a coalition and inter-agency partnership between OCEIA, Human Providers Company, and Mayor Daniel Lurie’s workplace on Housing and Neighborhood Improvement.
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Sources on the hub’s internet web page embody authorized assist for immigration, public advantages for immigrants, healthcare for immigrants and new refugees, assist with DACA functions, and knowledge on citizen software workshops.
Different sources on the hub embody these for housing and shelter, meals, ID playing cards, English language classes, and monetary help. Hyperlinks to info on free transportation sources and immigrants’ rights are additionally included on the hub.
The hub incorporates a calendar of immigration occasions on issues like buying work permits, citizenship, and orientation for asylees.
The hub was launched the identical day State Sen. Scott Weiner (D-San Francisco) introduced that ICE brokers had been current in San Francisco workplace buildings Friday, the place they focused janitors. SEIU Native 87, the union representing janitors in downtown SF, confirmed ICE brokers appeared at two buildings Friday however that no arrests had been made.
ICE showing in San Francisco comes within the midst of a nationwide immigration enforcement and mass deportation operation from the Trump administration. Final week, roughly 1,300 individuals had been arrested, in keeping with Trump administration “border czar” Tom Homan.
On Sunday, ICE reported an extra 956 arrests.
